“Abolish the party state”
AfD MP causes next scandal with statement
February 1, 2024, 5:28 p.m
A member of the AfD state parliament in Brandenburg said at an event that in government responsibility one had to “abolish the party state” and later justified his statement. The whole thing is on the agenda in Potsdam – and in the files at the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
If an AfD ban procedure were actually sought, supporters would probably take a statement from Brandenburg state parliament member Lars Hünich with them to Karlsruhe: At a citizens’ dialogue in Falkensee in January, which was filmed by “ZDF Länderspiegel”, Hünich said, among other things, during his speech : “If we are in government tomorrow, then we have to abolish this party state.” After the program was broadcast, the sentence also became an issue in the state parliament in Brandenburg.
Hünich recently repeated his statement in a statement on As an alleged example, Hünich cites the fact that Brandenburg’s head of the Audit Office “is elected on a partisan basis. It’s about which party register he has.”
Harald Kümmel will take over the position of President of the Court of Audit in Brandenburg. He was recently elected by the state parliament, whose representatives were last elected by Brandenburg’s population in 2019. The SPD, CDU and Greens, who proposed Kümmel, currently govern the state. AfD politician Hünich speaks out on X for “more direct democracy”. Theoretically, this would mean that the population would elect the President of the Court of Auditors – and probably all other officials as well.
Criticism in the state parliament
In the Potsdam state parliament, MPs did not buy Hünich’s alleged striving for “more democracy”. “They want a different, non-democratic state,” said SPD MP Andreas Noack. According to the Germany editorial network, the head of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Müller, made a similar statement: The AfD politician’s statement about the abolition of the party state violates the free-democratic basic order protected in the Basic Law the party privilege in Article 21 of the Basic Law.
Müller spoke of “further suspected evidence of the Brandenburg AfD’s unconstitutionality.” So far, the party there is considered a suspected right-wing extremist, and the youth organization “Junge Alternative” is considered “certainly right-wing extremist.” The AfD is accused of wanting to eliminate the “free-democratic basic order”.
Brandenburg is currently in particular focus because a meeting of right-wing extremists, including AfD members, took place near Potsdam, who spoke about the “remigration” of people with a migration background from Germany. The announcement of the meeting sparked protests in Germany with hundreds of thousands of participants. The AfD has recently fallen in polls. In the RTL/ntv trend barometer it fell below the 20 percent mark again after a long time.